For some martial arts movies, one of the best testaments to their quality is the sheer number of times they've been copied. Shamelessly replicating the formulas of successful films was a common trend in the martial arts movie genre , especially when it came to old-school kung fu movies .

There's no better evidence of that approach than Bruceploitation, which was a situation where copying Bruce Lee's style went so far that the strategy wound up developing its own subgenre. But while Bruce Lee's movies are certainly the most notable example, they were hardly the only victim of this particular method.

In fact, there were quite a few great martial arts movies that became the starting points of new trends that took hold in the 1970s and 1980s.

5 The One-Armed Swordsman

Jimmy Wang

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